The Republican National Committee (RNC) is demanding answers after a supporter of former President Donald Trump was arrested at an early voting polling location in Delaware County, Pennsylvania for allegedly encouraging voters to stay in line and cast their votes.
Read the full storyDay: October 28, 2024
Pollster John McLaughlin Breaks Down Trump’s Stance in the Race with Eight Days to go Until Election Day
Long-time pollster John McLaughlin said former President Donald Trump has presented a solid closing argument to the American people in the final days leading up to the November 5 general election, which is offering voters a stark comparison between his policies and those implemented by the current Biden-Harris administration.
Noting how the former president maintains a slight lead in the race over Vice President Kamala Harris, McLaughlin explained on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show how Trump’s current position in the race is comparable to Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012 at the same point in time.
Read the full storySupreme Court Takes Rapid Action in Appeal to Remove Noncitizens from Virginia Voter Rolls
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday docketed the appeal filed Sunday by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares after a federal appeals court declined to overrule a lower court’s decision to force Virginia to add approximately 1,600 noncitizens back to its voter rolls.
According to the Supreme Court’s online portal, the case was docketed on Monday after Virginia submitted its appeal for the high court to reverse a lower court’s decision on Sunday.
Read the full storyTrump Advisers Propose Private Agency, Not FBI, Issue Security Clearances to Appointees: Report
A group of at least six advisers to Donald Trump are reportedly circulating a memo that proposes the GOP presidential nominee, if elected, be allowed to issue security clearances to his appointees without the normal FBI background-check process.
The advisers include Boris Epshteyn, a legal adviser to Trump who is involved in his 2024 campaign, sources told The New York Times, which reported the story on Sunday.
Read the full storyMatt Boyle: ‘No Energy Left on Kamala’s Side’ with Eight Days to Go Until Election Day
Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has “no energy left” with just eight days to go until the November 5 general election.
Boyle compared Harris’ campaign to a “slowly deflating flat tire” which has caused Democrats to enter “stages of grief.”
Read the full storyElon Musk Ignores Unprecedented DOJ Threat of Prosecution over His $1 Million Giveaway for Signing Petition Supporting the Constitution
X owner and world’s richest man Elon Musk is defying an unusual threatening letter from the Department of Justice, which warned his America PAC that its giveaway may violate federal law. Musk is giving away a million dollars a day to registered voters in battleground states who sign his petition to support the First and Second Amendments. Those who refer other voters in the battleground states of Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina to sign receive $47 per signature, and $100 in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
According to 24sightNews, which broke the news about the letter, the DOJ told Musk’s Super PAC that offering anything of value to influence voting was in violation of 52 U.S.C. 10307(c). That law makes it a federal crime to pay someone to register to vote or to vote, punishable by a fine of $10,000, five years in prison, or both. Musk continued to issue the $1 million checks after receiving the letter.
Read the full storyWashington Post String of Exits over Refusal to Endorse a Presidential Candidate Continues
Two more members of the Washington Post’s editorial board resigned on Monday, after the paper declined to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos reportedly told his editorial board last week that the paper would not endorse a presidential candidate for next week’s election, or in future presidential elections, departing from recent elections when the board endorsed the Democratic candidates. One editor resigned over the order at the time.
Read the full storySoros-Backed Philadelphia D.A. Krasner Brands Musk’s Pro-Constitution Petition an ‘Illegal Lottery’ in Lawsuit to Kill $1 Million Giveaways
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday filed a civil lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and his new America PAC of violating Pennsylvania laws with the political action committee’s daily giveaways of $1 million to those who sign a petition declaring support for the First Amendment and Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Musk launched the giveaways through America PAC earlier this month, but his political action committee began in July, after the billionaire behind X, Tesla, and SpaceX endorsed former President Donald Trump following the July 13 attempt to assassinate the former president.
Read the full storyNebraska Senate Race Tightens as Election Day Draws Closer
Republican Sen. Deb Fischer has a narrow lead in the Nebraska Senate race against independent opponent Dan Osborn with just eight days left until the election, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday.
Fischer is leading by two percentage points at 48% percent to Osborn’s 46%, according to the poll. Among likely voters surveyed in Nebraska, 5% either refused to answer or said that they were undecided voters, according to the poll.
Read the full storyArizona Republicans Registered Nearly 110,000 More Voters Since July, Expanding Lead over Democrats
Republicans have expanded their lead in registered voters in Arizona according to data published Friday by Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, gaining nearly 110,000 more registered voters between July 30 and October 1.
The Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) boasted 1,562,091 registered voters on October 1, according to the Arizona Secretary of State.
Read the full storyPennsylvania GOP Reveals Bomb and Death Threats Against Party Offices, Officials, and Their Families
The Pennsylvania Republican Party (PAGOP) on Saturday issued a statement confirming the Montgomery County GOP offices were evacuated over the weekend due to a bomb threat, adding that it is the latest in a series of threats levied at Republican officials and their families ahead of Election Day.
A PAGOP statement posted to the social media platform X confirmed the Montgomery County Republican Committee Headquarters evacuated on Saturday after a staff member received a phone call, during which the party stated, “the caller communicated an angry, profanity-laced bomb threat.”
Read the full storyTrump Leading Harris in State GOP Hasn’t Won in Nearly 25 Years: Poll
A poll released late Sunday revealed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a slight lead in New Hampshire, a state Republicans haven’t won in 24 years.
Friday polling showed the former president remained three points behind Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris but has since flipped the lead, now ahead 50.2% to 49.8%, according to the NH Journal. The last time the state voted red was for former President George W. Bush over then-Democratic nominee Al Gore.
Read the full storyKamala Harris: Abortion Is More Important than Religious Freedom
Washington Examiner Vice President Kamala Harris continued her campaign’s abortion extremism during an interview with NBC News’s Hallie Jackson on Tuesday. When asked about religious exemptions for abortion, Harris stated, “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.” The Democratic nominee for president believes in forcing religious healthcare providers to perform abortions, a procedure that goes against many of their deeply held religious beliefs. It’s further proof a Harris administration would be authoritarian and infringe on religious rights while masquerading as freedom-loving and tolerant. Harris has been radically pro-abortion during her entire political career. Her history shows she is more than willing to target religious healthcare providers with punishment for not bowing to societal pressure. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyU.S. Says North Korea Has Sent 10,000 Troops to Russia
Politico North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia for training, some of whom are already moving toward the front lines near the Ukrainian border, the Pentagon warned Monday. “We are increasingly concerned that Russia intends to use these soldiers in combat or to support combat operations against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk” region, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters. The confirmation comes hours after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said North Korean troops were moving toward Russia’s Kursk region, which thousands of Ukrainian forces entered in August and where they continue to hold significant ground as Russian forces struggle to dislodge them. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyMajority Supports Florida Abortion Amendment, but Not Enough to Pass: Poll
The Hill A ballot measure to enshrine abortion protections in Florida’s Constitution does not have enough support to pass, according to a new poll. The survey from St. Pete Polls conducted for FloridaPolitics.com showed a majority of voters support the measure — far more than those who would vote “no.” There were also nearly 8 percent who said they were undecided or wouldn’t answer. But Florida requires an unusually high threshold of 60 percent of voters to approve a ballot measure, and the poll showed the measure falling short with 54 percent. The poll of 1,227 likely Florida general election voters was conducted from Oct. 23-25 with a 2.8 percentage point margin of error. Nearly 80 percent of Democrats said they were in favor of the amendment, while nearly 59 percent of Republicans said they were against it. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyJoe Biden Reportedly Blocked from Campaign Trail by Harris Team
Breitbart President Joe Biden is the nowhere man in the 2024 election race as Vice President Kamala Harris’s team simply ignores his entreaties to hit the campaign trail at her side, a report Sunday suggests. Three people told Axios the Harris campaign keeps saying they’ll get back to the octogenarian’s team on when to send him out into the field – and then simply move on. The Harris campaign views Biden as a political liability since his defenestration but doesn’t want to say directly they have no need for his efforts. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyIran Executes California Man Jamshid Sharmahd After Abducting Him During International Flight Layover, Convicting Him of Terror Charges
New York Post Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran after being convicted on terror charges disputed by his family, the country’s judiciary reported Monday. The judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported his execution took place Monday morning. Iran accused Sharmahd, who lived in Glendora, California, of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200 others, as well as plotting other assaults through the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran and its Tondar militant wing. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyWashington Post Owner Jeff Bezos Wants More Conservative Opinion Writers at Paper: Report
New York Post Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section — even as he remains silent over the broadsheet’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Bezos — the world’s second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued at $211 billion as of Monday — is keen on gaining a more ideologically diverse readership by expanding his newspaper’s reach among right-leaning audiences, according to a report in The New York Times. The Amazon founder, meanwhile, has remained silent over the non-endorsement controversy. He has not spoken publicly amid protests from high-level staffers and prominent figures such as Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full story2024 Early Voting Turnout in Tennessee Lower than 2020
Voter turnout through the first nine days of early voting in Tennessee is lower than the turnout for the first nine days of early voting in the 2020 general election, data published by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office shows.
Read the full storyVirginia Asks Supreme Court to Let It Remove Noncitizens from Voter Rolls
Virginia asked the Supreme Court Monday to block a lower court order to return over a thousand alleged noncitizens to the voter rolls.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares vowed to file the emergency appeal Sunday after an appeals court upheld a ruling preventing officials from removing roughly 1,600 individuals who the state says “self-identified” as noncitizens.
Read the full storyBallot Drop Boxes Set Afire in Oregon, Washington, Hundreds of Ballots Destroyed
Ballot drop boxes in both Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, were set on fire early Monday morning, destroying hundreds of ballots.
Read the full storyTennessee Nonprofit Tapped by ICE to Release Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Received over $800,000 in Government Grants
Tax documents reveal the nonprofit contacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to facilitate the transportation and release of thousands of illegal immigrants from detention facilities in Louisiana to Tennessee in 2022 received more than $800,000 of its funding from government sources that year.
Documents released last week by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti reveal the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Resettlement Coalition (TIRRC) was central to ICE’s plan to release thousands of illegal immigrants in the Volunteer State.
Read the full storyTennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson: Challenge to State Law Banning Transgender Care for Minors a ‘State’s Rights Issue’
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said the legal challenge to Tennessee’s law that bans “gender-affirming care” on minors is not only an issue regarding a state’s interest to protect children, but also a state’s rights issue under the Tenth Amendment.
Read the full storyBiden DOJ Fights Election Integrity Efforts with Lawsuits Across the Country Ahead of Election Day
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.
Read the full storyCommentary: After Hurricane Helene, Tennesseans Are Meeting Their Neighbors Where They Are
On the north bank of the Nolichucky River in Telford, Tennessee, sits Plum Grove. Between 1796 and 1801, the property served as the home of Tennessee’s first governor and founding father, John Sevier, who became a national hero after leading a band of volunteers from Washington County into battle during the Revolutionary War.
Read the full storyTrump Packs Madison Square Garden in Blue State Push, Unveils New Family-Friendly Tax Break
Rising in the polls and exuding confidence, Republican Donald Trump filled New York City‘s iconic Madison Square Garden with cheering MAGA supporters Sunday night in an historic effort to compete in blue territories and sweep control of the White House and Congress just 10 days from now.
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